I. Materials of twentieth-century music : 1. Introduction : The artist and his environment ; The arts and the artist in the twentieth century -- 2. Melody : The concept of melody ; Melodic style in ...

Most discussion of the most influential band of the 20th Century starts with the Beatles, but Smashing Pumpkins singer Billy Corgan offered an interesting suggestion as the runner-up while taping an ...

pt. 1. 1900-1933. -- The golden age : Strauss, Mahler, and the fin de siècle -- Doctor Faust : Schoenberg, Debussy, and atonality -- Dance of the earth : the Rite, the folk, le jazz -- Invisible men : ...

Standing on the banks of Buffalo Bayou at Allen's Landing, Houston's birthplace, you can see a worn-down three-story building starting to crumble under the weight of the years. It is easy to dismiss, ...

In 1898 Charles Ives set Psalm 67 to music. The piece begins with an eight-part bitonal chord, the men singing in four parts in G minor and the women in four parts in C major. In The World of ...

Aaron Copland, Elliott Carter, Roy Harris, Virgil Thomson, Philip Glass. It's like a roll call of the 20th century's leading American composers. All five had at least one thing in common: At one point ...